Develop Inner Awareness

Yes, they know they work at a certain job and live in a certain
community but deep down they have lost the awareness of who they really
are, what they’re truly feeling and what their purpose is.

A sign that this may have happened to you is when you start to
feel a sense of helplessness or feel that you’re not actually in control
of your life.

In an attempt to deal with this inner powerlessness, you may also become:

- very goal oriented and determined to accomplish something
- attached to obtaining certain things or being around certain people
- feel like you’re constantly struggling
- try anything and everything to feel like you're in control of your life.
- feel that you absolutely need a certain amount of money, or be around
particular people or own specific things to be happy; that without them,
you have nothing.

These actions stem mainly from feeling that something is missing
in your life. You don’t know exactly what “it” is but you just feel that
there’s something. You feel unsettled and as you struggle to fill that
constant hole within you, you may feel tense, anxious, or stressed.

As you continue to remain unaware, you'll mostly likely find that
you can’t move forwards in your life or feel that you're just going
around in circles. Any success that you do achieve won’t bring you the
inner happiness you so desperately crave.

You may also stay in unsatisfying relationships because you can’t
really connect to others and you basically live a one dimensional life
never quite understanding why your life has gone the way it has. You
just feel that there has to be more to life but you have no idea what or
how to find it.

By being able to develop inner awareness, you become much more
involved with life because you’ll suddenly understand yourself and
others with a new and exciting clarity. The stories you tell yourself
and others are suddenly no longer necessary. You accept and love reality
exactly as it is. You’ll become open and attentive to each moment of
your life and you let go of the thoughts and suffering that you’ve held
on to from your past.

With awareness, the emptiness inside you finally disappears. You
fill that hole simply by becoming conscious instead of living your life
on auto pilot. You also cease to look for the answers "out there". You
allow the real you to emerge and people start to notice a new radiance
and calmness about you. You’ll find that you love to share your joy of
life with others and you gain a sense of spiritual power.

So how do you develop inner awareness?

Question Your Feelings

Whenever you notice that you’re feeling bad which could be things
like angry, depressed, bored, resentment, jealousy, or frustrated,
question your feelings. For example:

Remember that people don’t make you feel a certain way (angry for
example), they’re just a trigger for your emotions. It’s your reaction
that you need to figure out. Those feelings are trying to tell you
something. You just need to listen and gain an awareness of what it
means.

Question Your Thoughts

Become a witness or an observer of yourself. See how your thoughts cause you to react and also act in certain ways.

• Are your actions a result of limiting beliefs or just habit?
• Are you trying to gain approval or manipulate others?
• Why are you doing what you’re doing? What is your true intention behind your actions?
• Do you believe that you “have” to do things in a certain way?
(example, you have to keep doing this job you dislike in order to pay
the rent)
• Are you letting thoughts from the past rule your future?
• If you were able to let go of one of your beliefs, how different would your life be?

Let Go

Relax and stop struggling, stop trying so hard, stop trying to
manipulate things to go your way, just stop doing and let yourself just
“be”. Accept things as they are. You need to find that gentle flow of
life and go with it not against the current. This doesn’t mean that you
stop taking responsibility for your life. It’s more guiding your life in
the direction you want instead of trying to force it.

Another part of letting go is releasing all your beliefs that
people or things “should” behave in certain ways. “She should appreciate
what I’ve done for her”, “he should give me a Valentine’s Day card”.
Let go of all the “should’s” in your life.

Practice inspiration

It’s important to keep reading books and utilize other ideas that not
only inspire you but motivate and teach you new ideas and concepts. You
may also want to try things like meditation, yoga, or pilates. Also, try
to find a friend or a group that you can learn from but also lean on
for support when you’re first learning to change your thinking.

Monitor Your Actions

Pay attention to where you’re spending your time. Are you caught up
in doing “busy” work or distractions like tv, movies, socializing in an
attempt to relieve those unsettled feelings you have. The feelings won’t
go away until you deal with them.

Also, do you have a general direction you're heading? This isn’t
do you have a specific goal. It’s more do you know what general
direction you want to go? Do you have a vision of what you want to do
with your life? This doesn’t even need to be exact as it could be simply
that you know you want to explore certain things more, that you want to
buy a house, or that you have a list of places you want to visit. It’s
understanding what excites you about life and knowing what your values
are. By having this direction, you cease to drift through life. You
instead start to guide yourself in the direction you need to go.

Along with monitoring your actions comes listening to your inner
voice. Listen when it tells you you're getting distracted and going down
the wrong path. It will tell you but you have to be willing to listen.

Develop an understanding of true forgiveness

Forgiveness is an often misunderstood emotion. True forgiveness is very
much an awareness of how you have grown, learned and benefited from a
situation. It’s about you and gaining a deeper understanding of
yourself. I have a much more detailed article on this coming in the next
few days.

Summary - Develop Inner Awareness

There is this mistaken belief that if you get more money or a better
career or better friends, then you will be able to do more of what you
want to do which is supposed to finally lead you to happiness.

The truth is that the required steps are in the wrong order this
way. If you develop inner awareness of who you are, why you act the way
you do and know what you really want, you'll discover the meaning of
being content and happy. You’ll also be able to accomplish what you need
to do in order to achieve what you desire. You’ll just naturally start
to focus on goals and actions that are the most fulfilling for you and
others.

You’ll also discover that you’re able to connect with people on a
much deeper level than you ever could before. Your whole life will
suddenly look and feel completely different and all you’ve done is
develop inner awareness.

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